Top 5 Heaviest Thursday Songs

Okay, so there's this review going up tomorrow over at WeLoveDC, of the THURSDAY / UNDEROATH show I saw on Tuesday. Quick summary: Thursday are kind of one of my favorite bands. I would be embarrassed to admit this, but every time I go to their shows, I look around and see a bunch of metal and hardcore kids just like me who understand their appeal.

They're actually not some pussy emo band - since Full Collapse [2001], they've been a post-hardcore band trying to shed the emo label. They're also miles better than every other band to come out of the New Jersey 'scene' they started.

The opener to their heaviest album, War All the Time [2003]. It's about going to work and doing the same shit everyday, but then something bad happens (9/11 obv) and 'computers spark like flares', and in that sort of hell, you long for the familiarity of your 9 to 5. It's also maybe about databases and how you're just a primary key in the EMPLOYEES table and you're 'marked for delete'. Here's a good way to quit your job: tell your boss you got married and change your last name to JOE';DROP TABLE EMPLOYEES;COMMIT;

'This is serious', in case you couldn't tell by all the oversincerity. 'I drew an X on your city's name!' What does that even mean! To me, it's about how there's a girl in a city far away and you decide you can never go back there again. Then you draw an X on a map because you want people to ask you why that city is dead to you.

At This Velocitycomplete the equation: / our names are X and N / we have no value.

Pretty sure this plane is crashing. There's a ton of math imagery in this song - but I mean, this is the one thousandth song where Geoff sings large numbers for dramatic effect. But it actually has a math problem in it: "five hundred feet per second / five thousand feet from the ground / how long will it take us to hit?" Answer: are they going 500ft/s forward or straight down? Assuming no air resistance, either a) 17.7 seconds or b) 8 seconds. (You're welcome, nobody.)

This song has to be about a failed suicide attempt, where said person realizes their will to live in the ambulance. Dude probably caught a glimpse of hell but couldn't handle it, and wanted to be "loved", or at least hugged by his parents for once in his goddamn life.